Improvement in soap



U NITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

ALPHEUS DOVE, OF BROOKVILLE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TOCYRUS M. BAKER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SOAP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 184,512, dated November21, 1876; application filed November 14, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHEUS Dove, of Brookville, in the county ofMontgomery and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Washing andToilet Soap and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in the combination of theingredients hereinafter specified, forming a soap of great cleansingproperties, of easy and ready manufacture, and very economical in pointof use.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to specify the proportion of each ingredient used, and the modeand order of their admixture.

Take twenty pounds bar-soap; four pounds carbonate of soda; one-halfpound borate of soda; one pound aqua-ammonia; one-half pound sulphate ofsoda; one-half pound glycerine; thirty pounds rain-water; one poundalcohol; two ounces oil of winter-green.

To manufacture the washing and toilet soap, I out the bar-soap into lineshavings with a carpenters plane, and then put them into twenty-fivepounds of rain-water, and boil slowly until all the soap is thoroughlydissolved. Then I add the remaining five pounds of rain-water, in whichthe carbonate of soda, borate of soda, aqua-ammonia, sulphate of soda,and glycerine have been previously mixed and dissolved, and boil twentyor thirty minutes :longer, stirring the solution all the time, when itcan be removed from the fire. After the above has cooled somewhat, theoil of winter-green, (or any other essential oil,) thoroughly shakenwith the alcohol, may be added; and when sufficiently mixed orincorporated by stirring the compound, r'un into suitable molds, and,when cold, can be cut into bars of proper size.

I am aware that all the ingredients named have been used in soapsbefore. In my case Ilay stress upon the specific proportions given.Thus, for example, while sulphate of soda has before been used, it isessential that regard should be had to the proportion employed. Too muchtends to thin the soap.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,isp The above-described soap compound, consisting essentially ofbar-soap, carbonate of soda, borate of soda, aqua-ammonia, and sulphateof soda, substantiallyin the proportions above specified.

ALPHEUS DOVE. Witnesses:

A. MOORE, D. P. OowL.

